Guide to using the Cyberware Scanner

The Cyberware 3D scanner is used to acquire the geometry of physical objects. Note that the object you wish to scan should be opaque and as diffuse as possible. The scanner is located in x711 (access through x709), and it is connected to the machine named aurora. To capture the geometry of an object you have to perform multiple scans from different orientations, and then merge the scans together. To be clear, in this document a "set of scans" refers to the scans acquired while automatically rotating the turntable by 360 degrees (but not manually repositioning the object). These scans are automatically merged together into a single model, and the first set of instructions below describes how to do this. In order to acquire the complete geometry, the object then must be repositioned on the turntable (usually on its side) and then a new set of scans are acuired and merged. This process can be repeated, and then the two (or more) resulting models must be merged to create a final model. Merging the results of different sets of scans is described in the second set of instructions below.